Max crashes when turning on audio output.

Hi. I’m a noob to Max/MSP and I still use the demo version. Unfortunately, when i try to turn on the audio output (even if it is just the ezdac~ object with nothing connected to it) the program immediately crashes. What to do? Anybody had the same problem?

Previously I tried to change the audio drivers the way you stated but max would always crash before I was able to close the program (thus ,i assume, not saving the changes I made) so I thought that wasn’t the solution. But alas what I did what you said and opened max, changed the driver and closed max immediately and it worked.